In 1989, the tanker Exxon Valdez struck Bligh Reef in Alaska, spilling about 11 million gallons of crude oil into the pristine Prince William Sound and causing what was then the largest oil spill in U.S. history.
Fast-forward 26 years, and the harlequin ducks and sea otters thought in 2006 to have been affected by lingering subsurface oil have recovered to prespill population levels, as determined by recent studies. Accordingly, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Alaska Department of Law recently announced that they have decided to withdraw their 2006 request to Texas-based ExxonMobil Corporation to fund biorestoration of subsurface lingering oil patches. Both agencies are bringing to a close the federal and state judicial actions against Exxon and its corporate predecessors regarding the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill.
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